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AUGUSTA.
FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20.
Travelling West.
In common withjaur own remarks, we desire
to call the attention of the travelling public to
the advertisement ot a stage line to Memphis,
Tenn., in another part of our paper, together
with the notices ot the route from several pa
pers which we copy. Apart from all consider
tions ot cheapness, saving of time, &c., It oc
curs tons that this route is destined ultimately
to become the great thoroughfare for all North
Alabama, Middle Tennessee, Arkansas, St.
Louis, and all points on the Mississippi between
St. Louis and Natchez, and even as far down as
New Orleans, because of the superior advanta
ges it has over others in passing through a high
ly cultivated, healthy country, and offering to
the travelling public a certain transportation
without danger of delay; for at Memphis the
number of steamboats passing the river both
•ways is so great that a passenger would rarely
if ever be delayed three hours. If, therefore, in
connexion with these advantages, we take into
consideration the rate of fare, for which we re
fer to the advertisement, and the certaintv and
rapidity with which travelers reach their desti
nation in the W est, it would seem that this
route offers inducements for patronage which n<-
other in the country holds out. We therefore
commend the subject to the consideration ol
those whose immediate interests demand an in
vestigation of its relative merits, with the single
remark that so great has been the travel already
on it, we learn it is in contemplation to change
the present tri-weekly line to a daily.
J/pThcNew York Courier states that the
amount of specie exported from that city to Eu
rope this Fall is comparatively small. No sil
ver has been shipped to England, and that taken
to France will not far exceed ©BOO,OOO, of which
3100,000 will go by the next packet. The pre
mium on silver has therefore declined consider
ably.
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
We avail ourself of the summing up, by the
Baltimore American, ol the results in these two
States, which is a most cheering picture tor the
W higs—and attests that no system of gerryman
dering can conquer their indomitable spirits.
They have done nobly in both Slates, and if
they have failed in consequence of the coirupt
system of gerrymandering to carry their entire
rickets, it is nevertheless a glorious victory.—
We have not ascertained the slate of the Legis
lature and the vole for Canal Commissioners in
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Election.
** *'fisiuiijKi.
ascertained, are as follow:
WHIGS.
1. Edward Joy Morris, gain,
2. Joseph it. Ingersoll,
(>. Michael H. Jenks,gain,
7. Abraham R. Mcllvain,
8. Jeiemiah Brown,
13. Gen. Frick, gain,
14. Alexander Ramsey,
17. Gen. James Irwin,
18. Andrew Stewart.
20. John Dickey,
24. Bullington.
locos.
3. John T. Smyth,
4. Charles J. Ingersoll,
5. Jacob S. Yost,
9. John Ritter,
10. Richard Brodhead, Jr.
11. B. A. Bidlack,
12. Almond H. Read,
15. Henry Nes, (Tariff Loco.
16. James Black,
19. Henry D. Foster,
21. Wm. Wilkins.
22. Samuel Hays.
In the 20lh District, John Dickey (W.) is
elected by 19 votes—so says the Pittsburg pa
pers received last night.
A memorandum on the Western way-bill, re
ceived last night, says that the retains ol the
18th District are all in, and that Andrew Slew
art (W.) is elected by a majority of 127.
The above returns show that It Whigs and
12 Locolbcos have been elected. 'l'he 23d Dis
trict has not yet been heard Oom.
Ohio Election.
The members of Congress elect, as far as as
certained, are as follow:
Ist. Alexander Duncan, (L.)
2d. John B. Willei,(c.)
3d. R. C. Schenck, (W.)
4lh. Jos. Vance, ( tv .)
6th. H. St. John, (L.)
7th. Joseph J McDowell, (L.)
Bth. J. J. Vanmeter, ( W.)
9lh. Elias Florence, (W.)
10th. Jos. Ridgeway, ( W.)
lllh. Jas. Weldon, ( W.)
12th. S. F. Winton, (W.)
13th. P. B. Johnson, (W.)
14th. Alex. Harper,
15th. Jos. Morris, (L )
16th. Jas. Matthews, (L.)
17th. Wm. C. McCafisltnd, (L.)
18th. Ezra Dean, (L.)
19th. D. R. Tilden,. W.)
20lh. Joshua R. Giduings, (W.)
21st. H. R. Brinkerhoff, (L.)
In the 10th District Ridge a ay's (W.) major
ity is 799.
The above returns show that the Whigs have
elected eleven members of Congress ..nd the
Loeofocos nine. It is proper, however, to stale
that some doubt yet exists as to the election of
Joseph J. McDowell, (L.) set down in the
above as elected. Sonic accounts state that his
Whig opponent, James H. Thompson, has been
elected. One District, the sth, is yet to be heard
from.
A postscript to the Wheeling Gazette of Sat
urday morning contains the tollowing:
Ohio out of the Woods.
We have the Ohio Statesman’s slip of Fri
day morning. It admits that the Whigs have
twelve majority in the House, and claims with the
old members a lie in the Senate.
So much for Otiio.
11 Whig members of Congress.
Respecting the election for candidates to the
Legislature, a postscript in the Wheeling Ga
zette of Saturday morning says—
The Whigs have a majority in the House
and on joint ballot. The Locos cannot have
more than two majority in the Senate—it may
be a tie. Huzza for the Buckeye State and
HARRY CLAY!
Flint andOcmcloee Rail Road. —Weleam
from a gentleman from Baker county, says the
Savannah Republican, who is one of the direc
ors of the above named Road, that there is
every probability of an early completion ot the
work, fay by the first of November, 1844. An
arrangement has been made with a very effi
cient Company, bj' means of which the direc
tion ot the road remaining in present hands, its
completion is insured by the issue ot the bonds
of the Company. The payment of the bonds is
to be secured by a mortgage on the Road and
by appropriating the receipts of the Road to the
new contractors. We are assured that those
■who have undertaken the work, are abundantly
able to carry it through. Our informant further
states that the crops in Baker, Lee and the other
adjacent counties wilt positively turn out to be
one-third less than the cropot last year.
An Apropkiate Offering.—The Whigs of
Philadelphia have determined to present Gov.
Jones of Tennessee, with a pair of beautiful
Silver Pitchers, as a mark of their grateful ap
preciation of his services in the late canvass in
Tennessee.
The Legislature.
A WORD IK SEASON TO TUB ELEC .
—The Whigs have carried the Legislature <
Jeorgia, ana now it remains for them to earn
mt their measures. The approaching sessioi.
rill perhaps Le the most impo lam. an.. ari.Uou
nr held for the last quarter of ,i century. Eveij
uember should be animated by a common leel
ng, and remember the most assiduous laboi,
lie most unwearied perseverance, united to tin
aost grave and wise deliberation, ate absolute
y requisite to place this State on the groun.
where she ought to be. They ought to remem-
O-T. and they will remember .hat Locqtocuisii
as done its worst, and th I our legislation foi
. ears has been a farce, if we can designate,
ueasures many of which were conceived in <
pirit of perfect disregard of every suggestion o.
justice and prudence. The evils of which We
nave coni] iained really and truly exist. They
were not watchwords with which to carry an
election. There never was a State, wc honest
ly believe, whose good name and fair credit
nave been so shametully trifled with as those ol
Georgia. It is the duty of the Legislature elect
:j remedy existing e' ils, and the remedy must
be applied with a bold and fearless, butdiscriin
iuating intelligence. The credit of Georgia
must be sustained, her resources must be devilop
ed, and tbe Whigs must do it, whatever outer,
• >uropponents may make against us during e
lections herealter. The duty which the noble
Whig party owes to the people of this Stale mus
be pel for lied, let the consequences be what they
may. George W. Crawford will lead off in a
message which will have the good ol this State
for its groundwork. He will not imitate the ex
ample ofGov. McDonald, whose name we shall
et.o associate with political drivelling, and am
bidextrous tactics. His message will contain
no special pleas to excuse assumption of jiowcr,
no appeals to the passions, no offers ot “kE
LIEF” to the dear people througti the Central
Bank, or any other Lank. We make up om
minds to that, and in these days of stern settle
u.ents, the people would condemn him it he did
so, as they havecondemned Charles J. McDon
ald. Our triumph is a strict decision of the
people. We had the names of somefive coun
ties mentioned to us the other day by an intelli
gent citizen of the interior, where not a speech
was made, where not an effort was made, but
whete the people went quietly to work and gave
Whig majorities instead of Loco majorities of
last yea . Truly the intelligence ol the people
was never dreamed of in the philosophy ol'Loeo
focoism. They have been made to comprehend
the curse of bad legislation, and they will now
demand good legislation.
It will devolve on this Legislature to pass the
reduction bill by the constitutional majority, by
which legislation will be simplified and improv
ed, and the expense of it diminished. Ant There
let us do our opponents the justice to say that
this was done last year when they had the major
ity, the only good thing they did do, so far as we
remember. Anothervote is wanted however,
to make the reduction a part of the Cf restitution.
In the next place they will divide the State into
Congressional Districts without lossoftime—re
j cling the gerrymandering system. Next they
will open new books, declare the public debt, and
consign the Central Bank to eternal obscurity.
They will repeal th ■ odious law of last year in
reference to Justices’Courts. They will reject
with indignation any proposition to sell ora
bandon the State Road. Let us hope toothat they
will establish a Court of Errors, that the ju
risprudence ot th- Slate may he improved. And
one thing they will not do. I'hei will not spend
eight thousand aollars of the people’s money in
instructions to Mr. Colquitt, as the Logos did
with regard to Senator Berrien.
How important is it then for every V. big
Senator to be at his post on the first day of the
session. Let our brethren of the Whig press
pass the word, that we have but a small majority
of Senator*, and that he election ol the President
of the Senate w hich is of vital Im, orti.nce, will
be lost to as unless every Senator be at his post.
We have lost the Senator in Emanuel, which
we calculated on, though Crawford has a major
ity there, and strange to say, notwithstanding
oiir tremendous major ity m the House, we have
in some ten or twelve counties lost our Senator
only by a few votes. We have tiro Loco Sena
tors who an* Bank men, but we have no right to
calculate on them. We may perhaps expect
another Senator from Ware, but it is doubtful.
We sar therefore to every true Whig Senator—
BEONTHEGROUND EARLY. BEEAR
LY. BE VIGILANT. — Savannah Republican.
~i tNaiu Courier.
Tennessee Valley—The Course of "Tratie.
Where is your Trade to come From?—
This question we have heard asked, in r< faience
to our system oflmetnal Improvement, an infi
nite number ot times. Ana we have answered
it often, to the inieiligem and refl.-e<ivc. But
tnere is a class oi persons, « hum only stubborn
f rets and actual demonstration will convince;
to such, we would address ourselves, and prove
to them by what is daily passing before our
eyes, that a section of country surpassing in
value all that which supported the commercial
cities of our seaboard and interior, in their most
prosperous days, has commenced to traffic with
ihetn—that an intercourse which never before
subsisted, which is increasing and of great va
lue, has begun, which promises to increase their
commercial im >oriance, and enrich them.
It is within the memory oi our youihtul citi
zens, when this region in which we live, was
the home ofthe Indian—when the Chattahooche
bounded the while settlements. Even then, our
system of Internal Improvements was commen
ced. Emulous of our Northern brethren, we
desired and begun to construct great channels of
communication to the far west. Their progress
has been slow. 1 hey have encountered diffi
cult s; but in despite, they are yet going on,
and every day’s advance still brings the object
nearer. Ana now, although 200 milesyet sepa
rates the sea-board trom the walers ot the great
west, the intercourse between our seaboard and
this tar country, to which we have been so long
looking, has commenced. Within a lew days,
we have been upon the wateis of the west;
whence steamers ply through the myi iad tribu
taries ofthe great latherot rivers, and bear up
on its bosom the countless products of the fertile
vallies which they irrigate, and we have seen
the course ol trade changed. We have seen the
slow mule tracking its way through the wild In
dian country to which we have relet red, burthen
ed with Merchandize lor these Western vallies;
ana tn return, their produce diverted from its
accustomed channels tn supply our necessities
This change has rejoiced us. It is the tulfilment
ol our ptopiiecy. hat Madison, 200miles dis
tance irom the Tennessee, the trade of its valley
is uiveru-d to the Southern seaboard, what will
be tne result when our system is completed, and
steam communication is opened with the bound
less tributaries ol the Mississippi? Nothing
short of a revival of business in ourcommercial
cities, a rapid increase in their vealth and re
sources; markets for the surplus produce of our
fertile lands, encouragement tot manufactures,
and the mechanic arts; the developement of our
mineral wealth, and that active, enterprising,
heahtiy, pervading spirit, which accompanies
and is sustained by prosperous and thriving
communities.
It must be generally known, that until the last
yeat the exports ana imports ot North Alabama
found their way to and trom market, either by
Hie Alabama or the Tenn ssee rivers ; and of
Eastern Tennessee, by the rivers or through the
Virginia Valley. 1 his is changed Heavy la
uen wagons ere now pin suing their way from
Madison to all that region watered by theCoosa
and upper 1 eune-see rivers, < mbracing a scope
ol country equal in extent and lesoutces to all
Georgia. Tnese are the facts, to which we
Moul i call attention. ihey uemonstate the
grow ing impunance us out public wurks, and
wholly discredit that short-sightedness which
would estimate their eventual value by the busi
ness which is now peilonned by them. To
tliose who from the beginning did, and still do
ridicule the idea of drawing the trade ol tbe great
west through Gcoigia or Carolina; to whom
tt’hateven is, is a mystery, &c., ail beyond an
enigo.a, we would si.y, tuat already have we
lapped the great atber of rivets. That even
no ,i, a? far west as 'Tuscumbia near the eastern
border of M ississippi, and and below the Muscle
Shoals, merchandise purchased in New York
can be hauled from the present terminus ot the
Georgia Kail Road at Madison, 390 miles in
"agguns to Tuscumbia, and laid down in a
shorter time, and as cheap as by Hie completed
improvements of the Notthnn States, and bythe
Onio and Tennessee rivers.
There are certain seasons when this may not
be true, w hen the rivers are in good boating or
der, and competition is high. But we are as
sured by old and experienced meichants, that
taking into consideration the certainty and ex
pedition of the Georgia Route, and us treedom
irom perspective delay by low rivers or ice, it
must have tne preference. Fiite.-n wagons are
now on their way from Madison to Huntsville.
This is an entirely new experiment, and most
completely successful, as we were assured by
the merchants themselves. Merchandise is al
so on its way from Madison to Knoxville, Ten
nessee. These are facts which speak fur them
selves. —They ate convincing. When we sec
the wagons roiling along, and the merchandize
boxed tn New York or Philadelphia, actually
unloaded and opened in t?e West, the El Dora
do of our hopes, as we did in untsvillea feu
ctavs since, we know that our calculations ol the
value ot our improvements are not visionary,
nor are their realization alar off
The course of H ade has changed. Heretofore
. r rail roads only carried that which naturallj
belonged to them. Now they are tn competi
tion with the improvements of New York,
Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and every advance
they make but renders their success 'the more
certain.
Great Central Mall Houle.
The proceedings ot a cente 1 oltlu
proprietors and Railroad agents on the roi t.
rom Memphis to Charleston, w hich met in th.
place on the I9ih iiret., have been furnished u ;
•nd, as will be seen, this route offers laciliiit
to those travelling to the noilhem and eastei
ities unequalled by any route now inorerattoi
.n pointol nine, and cost of ttavelling; the who!
istance Irom Memphis to New York beinp
traversed in 9 days at a cost ol ©62- viz:
From Memphis to Tuscumbia, 2 days, ©IL
” Tuscumbia to Decatur, 1-2 ” l
” Deca.ur to Charleston, 4 ” 2.
” Charleston toN. York, 21 2 ” 2£
Total from Mqpiphis to N. York, 9 ” ©o.
Much the greater part of this line is traverse,
by Railroads and steamboats; thus assuring th.
rat eller a degree ot camfbit not to be obtain™
on any other route of tile same extent. Il is en
i rely free Irom the impediments experienced or.
tec Ohio river route in time of low water ano
freezes. And the proprietors of the route seen,
determined to merit the patronage of the travel
ling public, as will be seen by the proceedings
of the convention, which are as follows: — 7'us
cwmbia (Ala.) Qyniorrat.
From the North Alabamian.
, iiiteretyting to Travellers.
We would recommend to the consideration ot
tlie iravcll ng public the proceedings below of a
meeting held in this place on the 19tli inst. bj
Hie proprietors and agents of the several Rail
road and fetage Companies on the great mail
reute between Mem, his, Ten. and Charleston,
-3. C. Every thing has now been done on Hie
, urt ofHic.pr.iprieiors o> this, which public Con
venience required ;.t their hands. It will re
seen that their rates have been si. reduced as to
nold out strong inducements to the patronage ot
those desirous ol travelling East or West; ana
dial the economy in time and con
trast very lavorably with the Northern route to
the Atlantic cities.
At a meeting of Proprietors of Stage lines
running upon me great centi al route from Mem
phis, Tenn., to Madison Ga., convened for the
purpose of adopting a uniform and reduced
ehaige per mile, in concert with the Tuscumbia,
Courtland and Decatur, and Georgia & Charles
ton Rail Road Cos., and also to arrange a
•through ticket’ from Memphis to Chariest n,
to encourage travel, and to promote the best in
terests ot all concerned:
It was resolved, Ist. That it is deemed most
judicious, and most convenient to adopt two
tickets, one from Memphis T enn., to Decatur
Ala., theother from Decatur Ala., to Charleston,
S. C.
2nd. That the sum of ©l2 be charged ftom
Memphis Tennessee, to Decatur, Alabama, and
the sum of 25 dollars be charged irom Decatur
Alabama, to Chat lesion S. Carolina.
3rd. That the line ought and will be adver
tised by hand bills at all imjiortant points Irom
whence travel may be expected.
4th. T hat this route being nexly established,
we teel the necessity of unusual exertion i n oui
parts to attract the attention of the travelling
community to it, and take this method of in
forming them that it is now in full and com
plete operation. y
The time from Memphis to Chatleston, will
be six and a half days, at a charge ol ©37 —to
New York nine days, at a chnge of ©62.
Il is a healthy upland route, the roads firm
and good, and never subject to be impeded by
high water. 4
We feel no hesitation jn recommending it to
be the most expeditious route from Memphis,
and all intermediate | oints to the Eas.ern cities.
Eye:.y convenience and accommodation will be
extended to travellers, and no exertion spared
to make our line attractive. The foregoing ar
rangements to go into effect on the Ist ot Octo
ber next.
Signed, WM. SPENCER BROWN,
Representing the Charleston and Hamburg R.
Road Company, the Georgia Rail Road Com
pany, Yarbrough & Hardin.
JOHN D. vv 1 THUM for Benan & Co.
The T uscumbia, Coutlland and Decatur Rail
Road Co. by DAVID DESHLER,
BROOKS & SMITH,
TURNER &GALLAHAR,
LEROY SIMS & BRO 1 HERS,
Stage Contractors.
We ate informed that every link in the whole
chain was represented at the meeting.
Accordii g to the rates now fixed by the above
resolutions, and the s; eed already established
on the line, the traveller will make the trip from
the expense w I unitmiii I
about ©lO lor other expenses, viz:
Miles Fare
Tuscumbia to Decatur , Railroad 43 $2
Decatur to Madison, Ga. (Stage)2Go 1(1
Madison to Charleston, Railroad24l 9
Charleston to Baltimore, (8. B. de R. R.)16
Baltimore io Philadelphia, (R. R.)3
Philadelphia to New I’orK3
«")2
Eatiiig and Sleeping, saylo
Total expense from Tuscumbia to New Yorks 62
From a statement which we have obtained
Irom a correct source, the following w n uld be
the expense from tbisplace to New Yoik at
this season of the year, and we may say from 6
or 7 months in every year, bj’ the way of Nash
ville, Louisville, Wheeling, &c. viz:
From Tuscumbia to Nashville, stageslo
Louisville, dol2
Cincinnati, steamboat 3
Wheeling, stagelo
Philadelphial3
New Yo.ik3
557
Eating and sleeping, sayls
Toial by the Northern route ,72
Thus it maj' be set down that during all the
hot and the cold seasons ot the year, when the
navigation on t! e Ohio is impeded either by
draught or ice, the great central route to the At
lantic cities has the advantage over the Ohio
river route in point of time 50 per cent, and in
point of expense about 20 per cent—it being un
derstood that 10 or 12 days are required to travel
the Northern Route irom this place to New
York. The estimate of the value ol the time
saved is best left to the individual traveller. But
it is considered a correct remark to say that
“lime is money”—and it is well known herea
bouts, that money is very valuable these times.
From the Baltimore American.
Whig Triumph in Baltimore.
An election was held in this city yesterday
for Mayor, and also lor two members of tbe
First Branch of the City Council in each of the
fourteen W aids.
FOR MAYOR.
IVhig. Loco Foco.
James O. Law. Wm. H. Marriott.
7630 7298
The majority of Major James O. Law, the
W hig candidate, is 332. At the State election
held on the 4th instant the average majority tor
Hie Whig Assemblymen was 97 —making the
Whig gain, since then, 235! The number of
votes polled yesterday was 14,928, being 1380
voles more than were cast on the 4th instant.
The most extraordinary efforts were made by
the Locofoco par ty to elect their candidate, but
the only effect of these efforts was. as th- result
has proved, to demonstrate more clearly the tri
umph of the Whig principles by an increased
majority. From what Baltimore has done al
two elections held in the | resent month, our
fr iends abroad may infer whi t the result will be
at the Presidential election in 1814, when Henry
Clay stands before the people for their suf
frages.
A larger vote was cast yesterday than at any
previous election. At the Presi lential election
in 1840, the entire vote was 14,621.
The Whigs haveelected 15 and the Loeofocos
13 members ot the First Branch of the City
Council—being a Whig majority of 2. Last
year this Branch had only 5 Whigs, and the
Loeofocos 23. Present Whig gain, 10.
Fire in New Orleans. —The Picayune of
the 14th inst. says:—A very destructive fire broke
out this morning at about 3 o’clock, in the
square bounded by Common, Gravier, St. Peter
and St. Paul streets, destroying nearly every
building in the square except those fronting on
Common str -ct.
Banmaster, recently convicted at St.
Louis of the murder of Thomas Krill, has been
sentenced to twenty years confinement in the
State Penitentiary.
Yellow L ever.— 1 lie Picayune of the 14'h
inst. says:—The report of the Charity Hospital
yesterday shows a visible and salutary decline
in the epidemic, only four cases. We hope it—
the decline, not the fever—may continue till
■very trace among the living of the pestilence
is swept away.
D. B. Hadley, was yesterday elected a mem
ber ot Council, to fill the vacancy in Second
Ward.
£5“ The Vandalia, which sailed from Nor
folk last Wednesday, it is supposed will proceed
to Texas, she was under sealed orders and pro
visioned for four months.
53’Every man has in his own life follies
enough, in his own n ind troubles enough, inthe
performance ot his duties deficiencies enough,
without being curious about the affairs of others.
The loss by the late fire at Quebec is esti
tasted at ©2u0,000,
AUGUSTA, GA THURSDAY MO|NING, OCTOBER 26, 1843.
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER, 2>-
o> r:raui.sg<ving>
In accordance with a resolution of the last
General Assembly, Gov. McDonald lias ap
jo nied the first Friday in November next, as a
I iy of Thanksgiving.
Mr. ebster.
The Memphis Eagle of the 12th inst. contains
rhe first in.iiuatiun, (in a letter to the Editor,
trom which the following extract is taken.) we
nave seen of the intention of the Hon. Daniel
Webster to visit the West and South in his
, jurnej’ to Washington this fall. This is truly
jraiiiying intelligence to us, which we sincerely
rope may be true, for we shall take great plea
sure, so tar as we arc capable of doing, in ex.
.ending to this distinguished citizen a most cor
lial welcome in Georgia. We care not what
carping demagogues may say, of Mr. Webster
his former or present political principles, or
whether those principles concur with ourown
views, he is an American citizen of whom we
.eel proud, and fqr whose profound talents as a
statesman we entertain no ordinarj- respect. —
Such a man is an honor to any nation, any peo
ple will be honored in honoring him, and no
American citizen should hesitate to give to Dan
iel Webster a most cordial welcome in every
section of this vast republic.
Th? correspondent of the Eagle says:—“Mt
Webster has long since expressed a wish to vis
it the South, and now, since he has become a
private citizen, andean for the first time within
30 years, command his own time, we may ex
pect to have the pleasure of seeing him perhaps
next month.
He will descend the Mississippi from Pitts
burg, or Wheeling, to New Orleans. From
New Orleans he will pass over the lake to Mo
bile, from thence through Georgia to Charles
ton, South Carolina, and to Washington City.’>
New Paper.— “ The Sun” is the title ol a
new Daily, “on the plan of the penny press,”
published in Savannah, the three first numbers
of which we have received. This is an enter
prising age, and we know of no project, (always
excepting the attempt to publish a paper in Ir
win county, Geo.! I) that exhibits a more indom
itable spirit of enterprise than this of Mr. Lilli
bridge to establish a penny paper in a city with
the population of Savannah. ’Tis a trite say
ing however," that a man never knows what he
can do ’till he tries.”
Health of tiis City.— The Picayune of
Sunday the 15 h inst. furnishes the following
summary of the reports of the Charity Hospital
or the past week—ending at 6 o’clock on Sat
urday evening:
Admittedl79
of yellow feverWs
Dischargedl3s
of yellow lever6B
Deaths 67
of yellow lever .62
Yellow Fever.— th? same paper says:—
Tnere were Lu four admissionsye?lerday again
to the Char ily Hospital. We hope soon locon
graiulate our leaders on its full and final disap
pearance.
Domestic.
“Coming events cas: their shadows before.”
Tlie folio a iug extract irom a letter, says the
Columbus Enquirer, written by a uistingujshed
democrat to a triend in this city, is indicative of
coming events. The writer is personally known
to us as one who, in the contest ot 1840, joined
his fortunes with what he termed Ute “glorious
democracy,” and done battle manfully in that
great contest to advance their principles arid e
lect their Candidates. 'I he deleat of Mr. Coop
er, he inirmates, lias ‘rarußEull
the beauties of democracy and settled discourse,
in certain contingencies, as to the next presi
dential election. Things will work right in
time.
“Cooper is most wofull y beaten, and this too
has been done by the glo/.ous democracy of
Georgia. In this pan ol the country they begin
to talk strongly of calling a: Convention to nomi
nate delegates to Baltimore, and these too of the
Van Buren stripe. This- move of tlieiis, (I
speak now of the Van Buren Democrats,) tneir
bitter hostility to Mr. Calhoun, the deleat of
Cooj.er, caused in tlie mai n ny their defection
and opposition, is indicative ol a system of os
tracism against all the Calhoun men, which will
not rest umilthey arc alldriven trom their ranks.
What will * » * * * do f
He 1 know to be strongly attached to Calhoun,
but yet 1 tear that they will either whip him in
to measures, or else drive him from their ranks.
My own course is for the present fixed—and
“from the lights before me” as Martin Van Bu
ren says, in tbe event of a c ontest Letween his
excellency, of Kindeihook and “Gallant Har
ry,” why my monev is bet upon the Western
nag, an.l I’ll help what little 1 can to aid him
in his race. lam not sorry for the present elec
tion in Georgia. I rather rejoice at it, for to my
mind it shows forth the future. 1 never have
thought until row that Clay could get the vole
of Georgia, but the Van Bur en men will not sup
port Calhoun if nominated, nor will the Calhoun
men support Van. lam a.fraid Calhoun will
not receive the nomination, but he ought to have
it, and to be President to boot. In getting him
1 would have the man with the measures, and if
that can’t be done why I’ll take the next best
choice. l Van’will not do, and I would sooner
have a bold, fearless, independent, honest man,
even if he had glaring faults, personaland po
litical, than an intriguing little red headed ras
cal, who sets traps, and fixes triggers to wot.<
out ends, to which he was never entitled from
personal ability or ihe value and amount of his
public services. Why in comparison with Cal
houn, he is Tom Thumb to Goliath, while the
latter is not only Goliath, but carries also the
sling of David. I tell you the Calhoun men
will not support Van, and for one say I “procul,
oh procul!” And I now predict that Clay in a
contest with the said Martin or Van, (I don’t
care which you call him) wiil beat him in Geor
gia, ten ttunisand votes, and every Calhoun man
in the State ought to and will vote for him.
try-From the annual report of the Wesleyan
Conference, it appears I hat the number of mem
bers in Great Britain is 331,024; an increase of
4,297 on last year. The number of ministers,
preachers, &c., 1,105; an increase of 12.
Ohio Election.
The Baltimore American of Wednesday the
18th inst. says:—The result of tbe Congression
al election, as corrected by the accounts by last
night’s mail, are eleven Loeofocos and nine
Whigs elected —one district not heard from.
Legislature.—The Columbus State Journal
of Saturday evening says—
The House we think will be Whig, but
whether sufficient to overbalance the Senate on
joint ballot, we can’t say.
Pennsylvania Election.
The Baltimore American of Wednesday the
18th instant says:—The result of the election lor
Members ofCong.ess may thus be stated: Whigs
12, Locos 11, and 1 independent. Last year it
stood Locos 16, Wnigs 12.
The election of C. R. Reed in the 23d District
is given on the authority of reports, byway of
Harrisburg, and requires confirmation.
Dr. Nes, in the 15th District, defeated a regu
lar nominated Locofoco candidate; and is a sound
Tariff man and goes for the distribution ot the
Public Land moneys.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot.
Philadelphia, October 17, A. M.
The operations in Stocks to-day were to a
moderate amount only, with a slignt disposition
to decline, —Pennsylvania 5 per cents closed at
60J bid, 69} asked.'
A he reports, yesterday, by the way of Harris
burg, were that the Erie (23d) district, had giv
en a small majority for Mr. Reed, (Whig.)
Ship Shenandoah.—This fine packet ship ar
rived at her berth at Walnut street wharf, from
Liverpool, yesterday afternoon; her freight list,
however, is small, only £SOO, with five cabin,
and forty-three steerage passengers.
New York, Mondaj-, P. M.
There is nothing stirring to-day in the way o
news. Quite a tnr derate business was done in
slocks.
Nothing has been done in Cotton to-day. 120<
bbls Western Flour, being all that has arrived,
Isold at ©4,59 for Genesee, and good brands o.
Ohio and Michigan—common qualities ot the
lauer sold at 3 a 6} cis. less.
The China Trade.—The Ne>. York Arneri
■an of Saturday says:—Our trade has
indergone an important drat.. Instead of
sending coin and credits on (which
latter eventually created a net*ssity to repay
England by produce or coin) a,,' Jfy considera
te amount of our go out to
China direct, an I have thus S’* met a good
market there. Manufactured c« 'ton goods, raw
cotton, and pig lead, ate the lead' particles used
in this branch of trade.” !
JJ-The Columbus Enquirer ,<)iys:— Old Fa.
I her Guicu, threatens to talk of the causes
which led to the late democrat:, defeat in this
I State. You are too late, the &'plc had talked
tie matter over, betore-han<K?'&.'his afterchat,
no matter how loud, won’taddiSuch to the tally
sheet. It is the shortness, of ,( -it cross-grained
critter, that explains the who Wt. Matter. It will
be so peculiarly short, nc.cl ’UI a man with
out spectacles won’t begin it. Let the
past be, therefore, and keep a t’ ad look out for
the future.
Evening.—The following andtouch
ing picture of evening is exlii&cted from a vo
-1 tune of poems j ust "The Wife
of Lean, and other Poems, Sisters of the
‘■Come hither,child! sinking,
Far in the west, /At’
And »,a< h Miiaii llower the ‘jinking,
% fl .j n>r t!i< ; Mtc-uit :
Ana the frtiflhotlr is <? ’
Floateth the va*t dim lullaby
And nature's footstep hath a quiet tread ;
And o’er the hill, the valley, and the wood,
Strange misty phantoms seem, with silent wings, to
brood.”
1 think, says Dr. Franklin, there are two pe
riods in the life of man in which the evening
hour is peculiarly interesting—in youth and in
old age. In youth, you love it for its mellow
moonlight, its millions of stars, its rich and
smoothing shades, its still serenity; amid these
we can commune with our loves, or twine the
wreaths of Iriendship, while there is none to
bear us witness but the heavens and the spirits
that hold’heir endless Sabbaths there, or look
into the deep bosom of creation, spread abroad
like a canopy above us, and listen till we can
see and hear the waving wings and melting
songs of other beings in other worlds ; to youth
the evening is delightful; it accords with the
flow of bis high spirits, the flow of his fancy,
and the softness of his heart. Evening is also
the delight of virtuous age—it seemsan emblem
ot the calm and tranquil close of busy life; serene,
placid mild, with the impress of its great Crea
tor, stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet winds
over the grave, and seems to promise that all
shall be peace beyond it.
Origin - of Whiggism.
The extravagant principles of monarchical
and hierarchical Government « hich prevailed
in the rime of Henry .Eighth of England, gave
occasion to those of another kind —namely, in
favour of the people. During the reign of
Elizabeth, a set of opinions very different from
those authorized by the Conrt and an Estab
lished Church, had crept about obscurely, if not
silently; and the principles,' by which King
James and Chat les Ist governed, gave great
advantage to the growth ol these republi ran
principles. This was the origin of Whiggism
whose glorious spirit, Lord Chatham most
truly said in 1778, animated millions in Ameri
ca to prefer Liberty even in embarrassment,
poverty, and distress, to gilded chains and sor
did affluence. It was the same spirit which
aroused millions of the Freemen in these days
to unite themselves in opposition to Executive
Usurpation and Oppression. What can resist
this spirit I
Consumption of Great Britain and Ire-
LAND —ft i s stated that the annual consumption
of tire people of Great Britain for food, clothing,
&c., is as follows :
Agricultural produce for f00d,... .£295,179,000
Manufactures,>.262,oßs,lloo
Imports, (taw produce,)ss,ooo,ooo
£612,264,000
The exports from Great Britain to the xvhole
world, for 1840, were as follows:
Total am0unt,£51,406,430
To the C010nie517,378,550
Actual foreign . 'x 34,027,880
A Speck of RhbeldoN.—The Nashville
Whig of the 10th instant, says:
A debate sprang up in the Senate yesterday
on a resolution to bring on the election of the U.
S. Senators in the usual mode. Mr. Laughlin,
of Warren, the leader of the “Thirteen” in the
last Senate, embraced the occasion to throw out
a threat (it can be viewed in no other light, not
withstanding his disclaimer,) that, unless a laic
first be passed, the election ol Senators might
be attended with the same embarrassing cir
cumstances that attended the question two years
ago.
Mr. Nelson, of Knox, and Mr. Cullen, of
Smith, promptty thew back tbe menace, treating
it as a sortie to cover the retreat of the member
from Warren, and reminding the members, in
return, that the rule of the majority had been
restored by the people, and would be firmly
maintained by their representatives.
Great Fire!
The New Orleans Picayune ofthe 15th inst.
says:—ln our paper of yesterday morning there
was a very brief and necessarily a very imper
fect notice ofthe fire, for it was raging when our
paper went to press. Yesterday we made itour
duty to learn more fully the particulars, and to
ascertain the extent ol the loss sustained. We
now place the result ol the inquiry before our
readers, trom which it will be seen that property
to a very large amount has been consumed. The
loss in most cases has fallen, it isto be regretted,
on industrious men of small m ans, w hose all
has been swept away by the conflagration.
The fire originated in a livery stable immedi
ately in tne rear of St. Peter street, near Com
mon street. Here, in St. Peter street, it burned
down five houses, double tenements, together
with back kitchens, &c.—in fact all those on
the Northeast side ol the street, except the cor
ner hou e on Common street, the one adjoining
it, and the small wooden house on the corner of
Gravier street. The five houses b.irnedwere
the property of Mr. Communy, Surveyor of the
First Municipality. He had not a cent insuted
on them. The wind having been blowing
from a Northeasterly point, the houses on that
square on Common street escaped the fury of
the flames, though some of the outhousesattach
ed to them caught fire, but trom the direction of
the wind, it was easily suppressed. 'The flames
travelling rapidly with the wind, caught those
houses situated on the same square in Gravier
street, all of which, with two on the South side
ot St. Paul street, (same square also,) the}- de
stroyed. The bouse burned down in Gravier
street, next to St. Peter, was owned by Mr.
Shute ; on this there was an insurance of ©IOBO
in the Ocean office. Tbe next was Tbos. Lud
dy’»; hebad an insuranceol ©l2ooin the Ocean.
The two next were Mr. Debuys’—no insurance.
Tbe adjoining one, at the corner ot St. Paul
street, and the next in St. Paul-tree’,south side,
were litiely finished two story houses, and owned
by E. A. Canon. Mr. C. had en insurance of
84009 on them, in the Merchants’ office. The
next was a very fine dwelling bouse with sta-
&c., in the rear, o.> ned by William Barnes.
Mr. Baines unfortunately was not insured.
1 he fire then crossed over St. Paul street, burn
ing down the houses of John Cass, Mr. Davis
and Mr. Ktver, on the East side of Gravier
street, on w hich their was no insurance. It next
attacked the square bounded by Gravier, St.
Paul, Perdido and Gironde streets, where, Irom
the unconnected state of the butldings.| and the
exeitions of the Fire Department, it expended
its malignity, first consuming the following
houses: James Wrights’, St. Paul street, be
tween Gravier and Perdido street—no insurance,
t he two next bouses, the property of Mr. Allen,
were insured in the Western office. Mr.Mills’,
corner of St. Paul and Gravier street—no insu
rance. Mr. Canterbury’s—no insurance. Mr.
Webber’s —insured in the Western office. The
next house, insured in the same office, also be
longed to him. Mr. Steward’s—insured in the
Western office. Mr. French’s—insured in the
Western office for SI2OO. Mr. Share’s—no in
sui ante. The next house and that adjo ning it,
at the comer of Gironde street, belonging to
George Alien, escaped the fury of the flames.
That next to it, in Gironde street, own?d by Mr.
Murphy, was burned down—no insurance.
That nex. to it, belonging to H. Williams—no
insurance; and lastly, the house next to it, be
longing to Mr. Shuberg—©4oo insurance on the
furniture, in the Western office.
There were in all twenty-eight houses de
stroyed and two damaged. The loss of the build
ings alone is estimated at from forty-five to fifty
thousand dollars; we have heard no statement
of the loss bj’ the destruction of furniture and
moveable property, but, Irom the rapid progress
jflhe flames, we judge it must amount to a very
considerable sum. The loss sustained must be
very severe indeed.
May he who tempers the wind to the shorn
iamb provide a shelterfor the poor people which
he conflagration has leu houseless!
Naval.—We learn, says tbe Philadelphia
National Gazette, that orders have been receiv
ed at the Navy Yard in this city to fit out the
itarilan Frigate immediately for foreign service.
The Raritan was launched early last summer.
—Cour, if- Eng.
From the Rome Courier.
Trade of the Coosa Valley—-Its importance
to tlie Western and Atlantic Rail Road.
The capital expended upon twenty-two rail
ways in England, comprising most of all that
are in the kingdom, is £47,917,637, or, counting
the pound at ©4 89, ©280,004,659. The yearly
receipts are about £1,826,202, or ©11,660,769, or
an average of about 5 per cent on the whole ca
pital. The number ot miles worked were 1280}
which gives the very large average of ©140,4-10
of capital expended per mile. It seems scarcely
credible that a profit could be returned upon
such an enormous outlay as this; yet, in truth
we find that an increase equal to a yearly inter
est of 5 per cent is yielded. We do not recol
lect the average cost of the rail ways in the
United States, but it is a sum tar less tnan those
of England, and the yearly receipts, by an esti
mate made several years since, averaged 6 per
cent upon the whole capital invested. These
tacts sufficiently refute the very erroneous im
pression prevalent among those who give the
subject no investigation, that rail roads are ne
ver profitable. In the excessive zeal for such
enterprises which prevailed throughout oui
country several years since, much extravagance
was committed, and many premature roads
commenced. Still it is satisfactory to know
that, considered as a whole, they have been em
inently successful both at home and abroad.—
Those in ourown State are not sufficiently com
pleted to show what they are capable of perform
ing or yielding. But the last yearly returns
show a large increase of business and corres
ponding income. It cannot reasonably be ex
pected that in their unfinished conditions divi
dends can be returned to the stockholders. But
when the period ot their completion arrives this
res ji wiil be attained. Great animation ami
TjW’Motr ptwadas it? ’.’rectors of ail war rail
roads, and if a corresponding feeling should ac
tuate the Legislature to push forward, with vi
gor, the State Road, the success of our internal
improvement system in the ensuing twelve
month, will restore confidence in such undertak
ings, and place them in such estimation with
the people as they deserve. Wc would here
point out the importance of a continuation ot
the State Road, at least to the junction of the
Memphis Branch, immediately. The present
terminus is now only 111 miles distant from this
point. The grading is entirely complete, and
there is only needed an appropriation for the
superstructure and iron. A lew words will suf
fice to explain the importance of this connec
tion. The Memphis Branch Rail Road is only
17j miles in length, passing over a very level
route. It can and will be completed with great
expedition if all doubts of the continuation of
the State Road is removed. Below Rome the
Coosa river is navigable 160 miles. Thus the
extension of the State Road Lt miles farther
will bring into use 180 miles of additional steam
communication. And in ccnnecrion with the
Georgia and Charleston, or Monroe and Cen
tral Rail Roads, would form a continuous line
ot rail way and steamboat navigation of about
550 miles, extending into the heart of Alabama
and within 30 miles of the 7'enneSsee river.
The value of the country bordering on, o
convenient to, the Coosa river, we apprehend
has never been sufficiently estimated. We gath
er the following facts Irani the census tables of
1840. Os course each reader can set his own
estimate upon the correctness of the results
there obtained. We think lhemsufficiently cer
tain for our purpose. Taking ihe counties ot
Blount, Benton, Cherokee, DeKalb, Jackson,
Marshall, Madison, Morgan, Randolph, St.
Clair and Talledega; all of which, (though by
no means the number that we anticipate will
travel across our lines of internal improve
ment,) even now trade via Madison, (Ga.,) we
find that the population in 1840 was—
Eopulationll6,s-15
No. Horses and Mules 38,835
Neat Catt1e159,298
Sheep 45,447
5wine441,213
Bushels of Wheat 353,194
“ -Cat5435,353
“ C0rn6,907,146
Pounds of Wool 84,538
“ Cotton gathered, 29,912,375
Retail dry goods and other
stores. 13s
Capital invested in tha above... .©809,575
“ “ in manufactures, 288,734
The above results are very satisfactory, and
prove that the trade of the Coosa river is well
worth seeking, but they are not to be taken as
tbe limit of the capacity of the country. Two
thirds of this section is fresh and new. Its pro
ductive capacity is not halt developed, and its
mineral beds just beginning to be explored.—
The land office was opened only this year in rhe
Cherokee counties, and already do we see a ra
pid change in the character ot the inhabitants,
and the permanency of their improvements.
They are just emerging from the difficulties at
tendant upon opening a new country, and are
only now beginning to produce more than is re
quired for home consumption. They are seclu
ded, and markets are difficult of access to them.
But open an outlet by the rail roads now in con
templation from Rome to the sea board, and
their progress will be rapid, and this section, so
fresh and wild, will leap quickly into a new life.
It will soon develop its whole resources and will
become wealthy and desirable, as it is now one
of the most beautiful parts of the State of Ala
bama.
After well considering the above facts and
reflections, if any can be found who would re
fuse to grant the appropriation to continue the
superstructure and iron of the State Road only
111 miles further, to the intersection of the
Memphis Branch Rail Road, they must, we
think, be governed by the most illiberal prejudi
ces against the xvhole system of internal im
provement. But we anticipate nothing of the
kind. The importance ot the trade of the val
ley of the Coosa river will be freely conceded,
and the Legislature about to meet will be en
ligLtened enough to appreciate its value in con
nection with the State improvements, and libe
ral enough to appropriate the means necessary
to carry the extension into effect.
New York Money Market. —The N. Y.
Commercial Advertiser ot Saturday afternoon
says—
The improvement which has occurred in bu
siness has at length given rise to a more active
inquiry tor money, and the rates of discount
have slightly advanced. An increased amount
of paper is offering, both at the banks and out of
doors, which has had the effect ot bringing into
use capital hitherto unemployed, and enabled
lenders to make more favorable selections in se
curities, as well as to obtain a more advantage
ous interest. Money is, however, readily pro
cured at five percent and under, upon short pa
per, while that having over six months to run is
used with difficulty.—The opinion is now quite
general that during the Winterthe banks will be
enabled to obtain the legal rate of interest,
though we believe few anticipate any thing like
a scarcity of money. As the improvement in
business which has commenced is felt through
cut the country, capital, which from the neces
sity of the case has been withdrawn from active
employment and concentrated in few hands, will
again become disseminated.
Cheese is becoming a very considerable item
of export to China. The first experiment in the
exportation of this article to Canton, we ate in
formed, was undertaken, bj- Mr. C. F. Hopkins,
commission merchant of this city, and it proved
so profitable that it is rapidly increasing in a
mount and promises to become a very consider
able item in our exports to that country. It is
packed whole in tin cases filled with sawdust
and soldered so as to exclude the air. In this
wav it keep« well and we trust may continue to
pay well. We are always gratified at the suc
cess ol eveiy effort to add to the number and va
riety of the articles of export of our own pro
duction, and particularly in those articles which,
like this, enlarge the market tor our agricultural
products, and at the same time giges adoitional
employment to our mechanical industry. In
this case the farmer is 4 benefited by this new de
mand, the manufacturer of tin finds increased
employment, and the freights of the navigator
are increased by the carrying of both these com
modities/—Cour. if. Enq.
An Immense Bell.—The bell for the new
Roman Catholic Cathedral at Montreal, which
was recently manufactured in England, and said
to be tlie largest ever cast there, weighs 7 tons,
11 cwt, 2 qrs and 12 lbs. It was cast in White
chapel, at the foundry ol Messrs. Mears & Son.
An idea of its immense size will be formed when
the fact is mentioned that it required ten tons of
fused metal to form the cast, and the casting it
self weighs upwards of seven tons and a half;
that its diameter at the edge is seven fed three
inches; that its clapper weighs unwards of
three hundred weight; the wood .work, which is
composed of old English oak, one ton; the iron
work mere than half a ton; and the bell itself is
heavier than the Great Tom of Lincoln, by thir
ty-two hundred. The bell has been pa'id for
from a fund subscribed by the mechanics, artifi
cers, agriculturists, and' inhabitants of Mon
treal, and has cost with its wood work &c. un
wards of £1,200.
Tammany Hall is in a flurry. It has been
several weeks in the attempt to elect our local
candidates for office without effect. It has
nominated a Senator and a Sheriff; but when it
will get through with the thirteen candidates for
the Assembly, the Lord only knows.— Cor. Cha-
Mercury.
Old Mother Eve well Represented.—
Was elected City Sheriff last ere, William O-
Eve—securities, Paul F. Eve Jojrn P. Eveand
William J. Eve.
MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23.
Foreign News.
The mail last night brought us an Extra from
the office of the New York Herald, containing
the accounts per steamer Hibernia, at Boston,
from which we have made copious extracts. —
The commercial news is
sents a very favorable to re
ceive more copious details by this evening’s
mail
Frost.—There was a slight frost in Mobile
on Tuesday morning ot the 17th inst.
Yellow Fever in Charleston.—Passen
gers from the North, announce the prevalence
of this scourge in Charleston. The papers do
not mention it.
The Contest in Mississippi.—The Mem
phis Enquirer ol the 7th inst. says:—Our ac
counts from Mississippi leave us no room to
doubt the success ot Clayton, the Whig bond
paying candidate tor Governor. Some ot the
anti-bonders themselves give it up.
Death or another Legislator.—We regtet
to learn, says the Savannah Republican ot Fri
day, that Mr. Israel Bird, Representative elect
from Bryan county, died at his residence a day
or two since.
SavanoMh RepUblieHn SBysaraAjie
gro man belonging to Mr. Hopkins, of Mcln
tosh county, met two fine Bucks on Wednesday
of last week, about half a mile from home, with
their horns locked, and cut their throats with his
pocket knife.
Jj*The Alabama Journal says:—We learn
with regret that the able Whig representative
from Mobile, Isaac H. Erwin, Esq., died recent
ly of fever in Clarke county.
We learn also by letter from Claiborne, that
Mr. Dellet, representative in Congress from the
Mobile District, is prostrate wtth an attack of
disease from which there is little or no hope of
recovery.
sj*The Charleston Mercury, in commenting
on the desire of certain Georgia Locofoco papers
to have Mr. Van Buren nominated in that State,
makes the tollowing remarks, which, though ut
tered in a tone of pleasantry, are true to the let
ter:
“The Banner is a little out of temper, but we
don’t wonder at that—it is not pleasant to be
beat—yet we might comptain at its turning its
anger upon us—and we cannot help wondering
a little at its anxiety to get Mr. Van Buren nom
inated in Georgia. Has it forgotten 1840, when
General Harrison longo inlervallo the second
choice ofthe Georgia Whigs, beat the New
Yorker by 8,000 majority? What chance would
he have against Mr. Clay, who is their first
choice?”
Health of Mobile. —The Herald of the 17th
inst. says, “The weather for the last few days
has been cool, without being cold—and ot course,
as yet, we have had no frost. The yellow tever,
we are pleased to say, has very sensibly dimin
ished—and should the present weather continue,
we have a very reasonable prospect of soon be
ing rid entirely of our troublesome customer. —
Nevertheless, it isby no means advisable for ab
sentees to return—for should a large number do
so, and the weather come out hot for a few days,
we should be as sorely afflicted as ever. With
our present population, and the care which the
people seem to take of themselves, however, we
have confidence that we shall have but little more
ofdisease in the city. Thenumberof deaths, tc>o>
we are happy to'say, has greatly diminished wit h.
in the last day or two —as on Sunday there wet e
bat two interments, (and they from the Hospital)
—and yesterday there were again but two •
With a constantly diminished, number of new
cases reported by the Board of Health, we t hink
we are safe in predicting an early release I rom
the destructive disease. But while we congrat
ulate our resident population on this |fact, we
beg we may not be construed as inviting stran
gers to return. If they would preserve the ir
own health, as well as the general health of the
city, they will remain where they are until we
have frost—and then they can come back as fast
as they please, and we shall welcome their re
turn with heartfelt pleasure. In a week, or less,
we hope our city will once again be perfectly
healthy—but that cannot be until we have frost
—even should we not have it for a month.
In the city, the sickness now is seldom thought
of and much less spoken of. We all begin to
breathe freer, and feel much more safe than a
week since. We sincerely hope we shall have
no cause to change our tune again during the
season.
New Jersey Again in the Field.—The
Whigs of this State, though recently beaten
from local causes, to them uncontrollable, are
again in the field with renovated energies, pre
paratory to the campaign of 1844. A very large
and respectable body of Whigs convened at
Princeton, on the 13th inst., and passed a series
ot spirited and highly commendable resolutions
in reference to the election of Henry Clay to the
Presidential Chair. One of the resolutions re
fers encouragingly to the great Baltimore Whig
Convention of Ratification, to be held May 2d,
1811, and proposes a hearty concurrence in the
recommendations offered by the City Whig
Convention, regarding that anticipated jubilee.
Mr. Webster has accepted an invitation to
address a mass meeting of Whigs at Salem,
Mass., at such time and place as may be chosen
for that purpose.
Mr. Clay and Col. Johnson.
In the memoir of Col. Johnson, lately publish
ed, (says the Otsego Republican,) he pays the
following eloquent tribute to the character ot the
Whig Mr. Clay. It should silence
forever, the mouthing, small beer politicians,
who delight to talk of Mr. Clay’s “bargain and
intrigue” with Mr. Adams in 1824.
“From his earliest political career he had been
associated with Mr. Clay, from the same State,
and for many years the representative of the
adjoining district. For the last eighteen years
they have both been conspicuous in opposite
ranks. It has for that length of time been the
interest ot one to defeat the other. But under
no ci’.eumstances could he ever be induced tr>
utter a sentence to the detriment of Mr C. as a
citizen, a gentleman, a man of honor, of talen ts
and of integrity. All his opposition to him is
political. As a man, he esteemed him, ,as an
old friend, he loves him, and in his ho' aor, he
strongly confides. If Mr. Clay were tl ie sub
ject of this sketch, justice would reqe fire the
same tribute of respect bo his magnami, setj and
fidelity.
The New Movement.- —Among
the reasons given by the Secretary of t he Trea
sury tor the new emission of Treasu try Notes
lately ordered, is the following:
“For some yeans the Government has; beers t'Z>-
posed to great hazard, delay, and cxp> msc, in life
transportation of specie to the remote po. ints of the
Union where its disbursements arc mad c.”
This is precisely xvhat the Whig s in Con
gress always maintained during the ridiculous
humbuggery which heralded the sp< :cie circu
lars, the metallic currencies, and all the other
golden “infusions” of Gen. Jackson’s ad minis
tration. And yet, the Old Hero is still Lauded
as though instead of destroying a rnost perfect
■And sound currency, he had really destroyed
some grim monster, and erected on its r uins a
currency system quite unexceptionable, when
indeed there cannot be said to be any sys tem at
all.— Sav. Republican.
Alas! It is not till Time, with reckla ;s hand,
has torn out half the leaves from the J 3ook of
Human Life, to light the fires ot pass' ion with
fro n day to day, that Man begins to see, that
the leaves which remain are few in number,
and to remember, faintly al first, and th. “n more
clearly, that, upon the earlier pages of th at book,
was written a story of happy innocence., which
he would fain read over again. The n come
listless irresolution, and the inevitable a etion <'jt
despair, or else the firm resolve to reco rd upo n
the leaves that still remain, a more nob! e histc >
ry, than the child’s story, with which tl ‘e.boo! t
began.— Prof. Longfellow.
LATEST FiWM
ARRIVAL ° f ™
STEAiMHR HIBfoKNIA
Fifteeu Days Later.
From the N. Y. Herald, Extra.
Boston, Wednesday, Oct. 18, >
2 o’clock, P. M. j
The British Royal Mail Steamship-Hiuer
nia, Capt. Judkins, was telegraphed at h. ls past
11,and arrived at about 2 o’clock.
By this arrival v e have Liverpool papers to
the 4th, and London to the morning of the same
day.
Business throughout the whole of Europe
continues in a prosperous condition.
The Hibernia brings a very large number of
passengers.
The most important items of news are the
loss ol the East India Mail Steamer, and the re
volution in Greece.
The political state of Europe seems to be
more critical and alarming than it has been for
years. An under current ot disaffection, long
pent up by the force ot circumstances, seems to
in. <e burst its fetters, and is now careering its
course onward among the nations—now stealth
ily creeping along like the silent and insinuat
ing rivulet, and anon dashing over the rocks
like the impetuous cataract. In Ireland, the
repeal question shakes the country to .ts centre —
Wales, from south to north, is in open rebel
lion aga inst the laws—©pain hatches a new re
volution about once a month—ltaly is troubled
with intestine broils, and is fast verging upon
unequivocal symptoms that the yoke of the op
pressor still .sits uneasy upon the necks of her
people.
Another great eruption had taken place from
the crater of Mount Vesuvius, exhibiting a
beautiful appearance, and almost turning night
into day at Naples.
A good many emigrants are about leaving
various parts ot Europe for Algiers—the in
ducements held out to them by tbe French go
vernment being considered very inviting.
Many arrests were made at Naples on the
occasion of the fete of the Madonna di Piedi
grotta.
The strikes at a large number of the collie
ries in England still continued at the last ac
counts, and fears were entertained that the win
ter supply of coal would be short.
The Agram Gazette, says that the inhabitants
of Bihaez in Croatia were about to march a
gainst the Pasha, under the guidan.-e of Omar
Beg. The cause of this revolt is not slated.
The‘Borsenhalle’of Hamburgh says, “The
disturbances which took place a few days ago
near the Millern Gate, were repeated yesterday,
but the troops soon restored tranquility. The
tumult was greatest outside the Gate—several
persons were wounded, and a large number ot
ar.rests were made.”
G'-reat activity prevailed in all the English
navy yards, and orders had been received to th
out foT immediate sei vice nearly all the vessels
in ordinary. The cause ot these movements
was a matter of much speculation and inquiry.
Tlie Barcelona papers of the 16th announc.
that the two Carlist chiefs, Zorilla and Morelea,
have collected bands, and are devastating the
towns of Catalonia, in the names of Naivoez
and Christina, who, in their despair, l.aveflun p
themselves into the arms of the Carlists.
Ireland.
The Repeal agitation continues in Ireland
with unabated ardor, but without exciting an;
apparent alarm on the part ol the government
it is stated that the government is secretly yel
actively maturing plans to crush the first attempt
at electing an Irish Parliament. Mr. O’Connd,
in his speech at C ifdon, had stated that his
“monster meetings” were nearly over—that he
should not hold more than seven or eight more
of them—that the country was sufficiently arous
ed—and that the giant moral power of Ireland
was now strong enough, with subordination and
discipline, to accomplish all they wanted—“ R
epeal, and nothing but Repeal I”
Loss of the Memnou Steamer, in the Red
Sea, with the overdue India Mail, of the
Ist of August.
Liverpool, Wednesday A. M.
Just before our paper went to press, we re
ceived a second edition ofthe London Times,
containing the following important intelligence:
We have received by extraordinary express
from Paris, letters fotn our coirespondents in
Syria, Egypt, Malta, and Marseilles, announc
ing, we regret to say, the total loss of the Hon
East India Co.’s steam-ship Memnon, off Cape
Guaidafui, on the coastofAtrica, near to Aden,
on the evening ofthe Ist of August. Tbe crew,
passengers and treasure were saved, but tbe
mails and the effects ofthe passengers went
down in the wreck.
We .must, however, at this late hour, confine
ourselve.sto the correspondence which acquaints
us with th“ melancholy event.
Cairo, Sept. 13.
The Hindo'Ston arrived on the morning of the '
12th, at 4 o’clock, at Suez. She brings 108 pas
sengers, and the following intelligence of the to- i
tai wreck of the iMemnon, from Bombay, at or
near the African c oast, opposite Aden. All the
mails were totally. 'estroyed. The commander ;
was Capt. Powell, who, I believe, lost the Sem
iramis, in her first trio, being the first steam fri
gate ot the Indian navy. Much blame is at- j
tached on this occasion to him.
She struck on a reef after the commander
had been warned by the officer on watch of the
vicinity of land, and the consequent danger.—
The mail was large, but entirely lost; the pas- ]
sengers and treasure all saved. Two passen
gers of the Memnon arrived at Suez by the
Hindostan. We have no sickness in this city
and I push through the bazaars with impunity.
Alexamdria, Sept. 15.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company’s
steam-ship Hindostan, Capt Moresby, arrived
at Suez on the night ol the 11th inst. from Cal
cutta, which place she left on the lOihofAu
gvst, with some cargo and 108 passengers, the
greater part of whom intend to proceed to Eng
land by the steamer Oriental.
She has brought the melancholy intelligence
of the total loss, on the evening of the Ist of Au
gust, otthe East India Company’s steam frigat",
Memnon, off Cape Guardafui, on the coast ol
Africa; there wt re on board 170 persons, who
were fortunately all saved, but some of their es
sects have been recovered.
All the mails lest, and it is to be regretted
that, owing to their late arrival there had a back
mail from Madras.
The Memnon has entirely gone to pices, and
nothing has been saved but five cases 6f trea
sure, which were fortunately on deck at the time
ofthe accident.
Capt Holmes, Political Agent at Aden, had
sent to the assistance of the shipwrecked people
three small steamers. Two passengers who
were on board the Memnon, Messrs. Southey
and Crawlbrd, have arrived at Suez from Adan
by the Hindostan.
Italy.
Bologna continued to be agitated by accounts
or the movements ofthe insurgents who, it ap
peared. were collecting in guerilla parties in the
mountains. Count Radetzky, the military gov
ern or ol the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, has
received authority to place at the disposal ol the
So vereigns ol Italy 4,000 men in case of need,
and to march them on the threatened points.
3?he Augsburg Gazette ot the 13th instant
say s that the most contradictory reports are cir
culated relative to the late insurrectional Bo
logna. It is rumored that the insurgents are
stiil in such force in the mountains in the direc
tion ot Pistoya and De Bagni Della Poretta,
that it will require the intervention of a foreign
force to dislodge them. In the meantime the
Papal Government had sent all their disposable
troops against the insurgents.
The Toulonnais ol the 14th instant quotes a
letter from Naples of the 26th ult., mentioning
that symptoms of disorder were beginning to
manifest themselves in that capital. Attempts
had again b~en made to set on fire the clothes ol
ladies of rank in the streets of Naples. Several
arrests had taken place. According to a deciee
of the police, every individual caught in the act
was to be bastinadoed, and afterwards tried by
a criminal court. The Neapolitan Government
was afraid to call in regiments from the provin
ces, where, it appears, considerable excitement
prevailed; but orders had been sent to the four
Swiss regiments to repair thither for the festivi
ty of the Madonna de Pie di Grota, where an
0 utbreak was apprehended.
Wales.
’ r hc impunity with which the Rebecca-ites
hav. ’ carried on their war against the toll-gates
in thi ’ south of Wales, has caused disaffection to
snrea. 1 through the northern provinces, and the
people are evidently awaking to the wrongs
and op pressions which they have patiently en
dured so r centuries. In proportion to their suc
cess the Rebeecaites became more daring, and,
we are st. »rry t 0 sa J’ >b more vindictive. The
Monmouti ' says—“ The Rebeccaites
have ttisgra cefully lost whateverof prestige was
attached to their cause; they have committen
incendiaryisi n and murder! Cowardly mis
creams have «ung a torch among the frm|s ol
harvest, and h ave imbrued their hands in the
blood of an i W-’-l woman! Is this the wa,
whose “ronuant ic characterI’challenges 1 ’ challenges the *m
nathies ot hiali. mtnded Welchmen I 1 heglo
rv ot the “Camb > an William Tell” and hisfeal
lant mountaineer s has departed ; they hav, be
come Swings and ruthless assassins.
VOL. vn -NO. 43.
A.giu*.
The accounts uom a triers are ol a more
peaceable character, ana the Regency was te
gmuitig to enjoy a degree ol tranquility. Ihe
uilitary convoys between Uran, ivta caia and
i lemcen, now circulate Hedy, unuer me escort
ot tiienuly Arabs. Generals Lamoricieie were
nevertiideas still in tne li-lu. anu to ttieir cuiubi
ned operations was the tranquility ot the inte
rier to be ascribed.
Complete Kevolution lu Greece.
A revolution, which puts to the blush that of
the “three glorious uays ot July,” ha* been
brought about io Greece. It couiiuenaed at
two o'clock in the niglu of the fourteenth, and
was accomplished within twelve nours after
wards, and without tbe cost ol one human life.
The council ot state, the army, and the citi
zens of Athens, united in forcing from King
Otho the dismissal oi his ministers, and the call
ing of a national assembly to draw u,. a defini
tive constitution tor Greece; an.i when it is re
collected that they have had to endure the frus
tration of their first revolution, it is nut to be
wondered at that tne Greeks resolved on wring
ing iroin the tears of their sovereign that consti
tution they could no longer hope lor from hi*
justice.
It is not thought that the “protecting powers”
will interfere to prevent the siding ol the Na
tional assembly, though the settlement of the
constitution to ue proposed by that body will no
doubt be jealously watched.
Il is said that the King yielded with ba (grace,
when he found that all resistance on hi* part
would be unavailing. Il was eleven o’clock A.
M. before his obstinacy was subdued.
The steamship Hibernia irrivedout in 13 1-2
days trom Boston. Captain Hewitt was sick dur
ing the whole passage.
The packet snip Southerner of N. York arrived
at Liverpool on the 291 h, the Columbia the neat
ated by the agitation of the questHiu o 2 the fort!
fications of Paris, bad not diminished in the
.east.
On the 10th ult., at Torres, near Jaen, in Spain,
an avalanche killed 200 persons and destroyed
42 houses.
A letter irom Berlin, of the 13th inst., announc
es the failure of Messrs. Rick, &■ Co., of Iser
lohn, Westphalia, manufacturers, for 4,000,000
thalers, (©600,000.)
On dit, that Sir Robert Peel has made over
tures to Lord John Russel fora coalition minis
try-
From the Nashville Whig, October 12.
The Great Race.
The great “Peyton Stake” was run for over
the Nashville Coutse on 'l ues ay. Thecontest
was one of extraordinary interest and excite
ment, owing, in a c> nsiderable degree, to the
very large amount, (about thirty four Uunisand
dollars,) at stake. We avail ourselves ofthe re
port ot the Banner:
“Four horses started. The first heat was
won by the Hon. Alex’r Barrow’s produce of
Lilac, by imp. Leviathan and imp. Shylark.
I’he second was taken by Col. tl aae tiaiupton’s
produce of imp. Delpbine, by W hisaer and
Plenipotentiary. Ihe third was keenly con
tested between Col. Hampton’s and Kirkman’s,
hut the latter in the last mile, made a brush and
passed tier competitor, lire totirth heal was
ue great contest, Hon. Balie Peyton’s was with-
Irawn. The contest lay again principally be
.ween Col. H uiipton's and Mr. niikuian’s. It
was well sustained, but again in tne last round,
oy a brush gained the day. This result seeuiad
quite unex, ected. Col. Hampton'* horse was
■vidently the favorite, win e tbe victor had ex
cited but inconsiderable attention or interest.
James Kirkman’s entry—produce of
Eliza, by Rubens, and imp. Glen-
coe 4 4 11
Col. Wade Hampton’s entry—pro
duce of i m;. Del ph ine, by VV h isker
and Plenipotentiary 3 1 9 2
Alexander Barrow's entry—produce
of Lilac, by imp. Leviathan, and
imp. Bkylaik l 2 3 3
Peyton & Uhalinei’s entry produce of
Black Maria, by Eclipse,andimp.
Luzborough 2 3 4 0
Time 8:52-8:50-8:33-8:52.
Track very heavy.
Money.—The New York Express says
There was an effort made a week or two since
by some ot our Banks, u> put up the rate of in
terest tos per cent, but it was but temporary; and
a react! n has taken place. Ine Banks are now
discounting at 4to 4} and 5 percent. Some of
he country Banks came into Wall street last
week and took over bait a million ot paper at 3
per cent.
With large capitalists and country Bank*
constantly in the market, disposed to take paper
al 3 to 4 per cent, it is impossible for our Banks
io get up the rate to five. Indeed, the regular
offerings at Bank have never been assmall as
hey are at present. Some ot ou' largest Banks
have but one or two notes presented al an offer
ing.
A Mother’s Aqony. —The ravages of the
v ellow lever have been great in Mobile for the
population, and we have noticed several instan
ces where whole family circles have been bro
ken up by the ruthless hand ofthe tell disease.
I'ruly the following which we copy in m the
Herald, is a picture sad to look upon:
“And then I, too, will lay me aown and die!"—
Almost hourly in the day we hear of some in
stance of real distress, which is sufficient to
wring tears irom a heart of stone; where some
poor, unfortunate being ha* lust by death all
that bound him to earth, and the last tie which
held their affections are severed.
A day or two since the most heart-rending in
stance of affliction and calm despair was told
us, which we ever remember to have heard. It is
this:
Some two or three weeks since, a lady of this
citv gave birth to a child, and still while on her
bed with debility, she was taken with tbe yellow
fever. Her child died, and her husband and
mother were seized with the same dis
ease. In a day or two after a younger broth
er was taken down—and as all of tbe fami
ly, with the exception of one brother, was taken
sick, the last one was carried to the house of a
friend. Ina lew days the mother, who was fit st
taken down, died—her husband followed her
shortly after. Tbe aged mother recovered so
tar as to go and nurse her sick boy—and in the
meantime the elder brother, the last ot the fami
ly was also seized with the fever. The mother
watched with a mother’s solicitude, the fasl-ebb
ing lite of her youngest boy, who was sinking
into dea.h’s embrace. Ere long he too died—
and tn a lew mornens, when his bereaved parent
saw her loss, she observed in a certain tone
which too plainly tol< of despair, “Now that he
is dead, I will go home and nurse my lastchild;
and when he is dead, 1100, will lay me aownand
'lie!” Oh, who can picture the agony of that
bereaved and heart-broken woman I Words
cannot do it, and none but a parent can teel that
mother’s misery. What an awful chasm has
been made in her bosom, never, never in this
world to b“ filled!
Burial Places.—The embellishment of bu
rial grounds is one of the most beautiful and
commendable features ol our time and country,
t here always seemed to me far too much hor
ror connected wilh the common idea of deaih
and burial. Ihe Moravians make flower gar
dens ol their grave yards, ano inscribe upon the
stone at the head of’zhe buried man t. e “day he
came hither and the day he went home"—his
oirlh-day and time t.f death. This is clothing
with the aspect an event which is only an proper
unlinking of a chain, no pan ol which candecay
the spirit to return to its fountain and the body
to be re-produced in other forms ol lite—an lit
is a curious thing that most Christians represent
Death as a frightful skeleton, while the Gteeks,
who bad no haapiness in their hereafter, painted
itu as a sleeping child or a beautiful youth.
Death in he East was lormeily attributed to the
attachment of a particular deity, who took his
l vorite to a better woild; to the love of Au
rora, it the death happened in the morning; of
Selene, if it happened at night; ol the water
nymphs, if drowned; ot Jupiter, if killed by
lightning. The caverns where the martyrs
were laid were called "chambers of repose."
And this, surely, is the lietter impression to
give of death to those whose minds are forming.
Query—whether a society for the purpose ot
embellishing cemeteries and brighimng all the
common snrroundiugs ol death and burial would
not be worthy the attention ol some philanthro
pic enthusiast ? The solen nines connected
with a future life need not make the gate to it
always so dreadful: and, for one, I should be
content to put the separation of s< ul and body
on a level with the unlinking of a friendship or
a change of opinion—erecting a cenotaph for
either of the three changes, as the Pyibagorians
did to the memoiy ot those who left their seel.
—jV. V. Cor. Nat. Ini.
Van Buren on Repeal.—The Freeman’s
Journal, the Irish organ in New York, in pub
lishing the ex-President’s letter on repeal, makes
this pointed comment:
•'We commend this letter to the attention of
our readers, tciiiis; them Lett rluck <f
■ ng the sentiments ol the distinguished writer than
we have had. Though we read it over several
imes for the purpose, we are obliged still to
confess ourselves in the <.ark as to what is the
writ r’s opinion on the propriety of the Ameri
can movement. If any friend succeeds better
ie should be glad to bear from him—pos age
paid. Seriously, it would have gratified us
much, had the ex President been somewhat el
licit. It is rati.er amusing to see me uninten
tional satire of the Plebian in its praise of ‘its
clearness.* Ac.